Last night, Federated Media's Neil Chase and I presented at my alma mater, the UC Berkeley Grad School of Journalism, about online publishing. The conversation was all about digital media, so afterwards I was delighted when a student there named Diana Jou came up to me wanting to talk about print 'zines! She has a blog, called Systems of Operation, where she (mostly) posts photos of 'zines, print ephemera, and artists books whose design she digs. Her taste seems to overlap with my own and I hope she starts updating her blog more frequently! The images above come from an instruction manual for an Olivetti typewriter and a booklet from the Society for Scientific Investigations of Anomalous Atmospherical and Radar Phenomena. Systems of Operation blog
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Gee, my typing classes always taught me to type the '6' with my right hand, despite the fact that it was closer to the 'f' than to the 'j'. Of course this is advice that I ignored.
Does that typing diagram correspond to how you type?
For me, I use the "F" finger for "V" and "B and the "J" finger for "N" and "M". Trying to make "K" get the "M" feels very awkward (although I'm using "D" for "C", so it's not like I have any rational reason). The "B" key is the same distance from "F" and "J" on my keyboard and their diagram so I suppose it's reasonable that people would kind of pick a random finger to get to it, and then stick to one or the other over time.
Anyways, I'm curious what other people do here (I'm right-handed, if that matters). Does anyone triple-load one finger: eg. using "F" for "C", "V", and "B"?
Sorry, so do you do "4", "5", and "6" all with your "F" finger? Or do one of "A", "S", and "D" do 2?
I appreciate "6" is somewhat closer to "F", but it also seems fairly natural to let each finger get 1, with "F" and "J" getting 2 ("4" and "5", and "6" and "7").
This is super important!